{"id":639,"date":"2009-12-08T06:58:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=639"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:29:43","slug":"vancouver-phishing-phlu-scam-telavancin-and-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/vancouver-phishing-phlu-scam-telavancin-and-cartoon\/2009\/12\/08\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver, Phishing Phlu Scam, Telavancin, and Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-640\" title=\"Televancin\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/12\/Televancin-150x1501.png\" alt=\"Televancin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A few things to ponder as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/weekly\/\" target=\"_blank\">flu activity (mercifully) declines<\/a>, at least for now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interested in evidence that HIV treatment has become staggeringly effective?\u00a0 Fully 87% of patients receiving treatment in the large British Columbia cohort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/648729\" target=\"_blank\">have an HIV RNA &lt; 50<\/a>; not only that, the incidence of HIV drug resistance has declined <em>more than 12-fold<\/em> since 1997.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t want to be in the business of selling resistance tests.<\/li>\n<li>Did you read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hoaxes_rumors.html\" target=\"_blank\">this scam<\/a>?\u00a0 The text from the hoax is pretty awkward &#8212; &#8220;This profile has to be created both for the vaccinated people and the non-vaccinated ones&#8221; is a choice bit of prose &#8212; but one could easily imagine how it could trap at least somebody.\u00a0 And as an example of the levels to which humans will stoop to make money, using fear of a real virus to spread a computer one has to be <em>way <\/em>down there.<\/li>\n<li>Has anyone yet actually used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibativ.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">telavancin<\/a>?\u00a0 Not in a clinical trial, but in a patient in clinical practice?\u00a0 If so, what were the indications?\u00a0 How did it go?<\/li>\n<li>Related, here is a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbank.com\/2000\/Your-infection-may-be-antibiotic-resistant-but-lets-see-how-it-responds-to-intensive-litiga\/invt\/119674\" target=\"_blank\">cartoon<\/a> &#8212; but there&#8217;s an even better one on antibiotics that has not yet appeared on-line at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbank.com\/page\/home\" target=\"_blank\">The Cartoon Bank,<\/a> so stay tuned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things to ponder as the flu activity (mercifully) declines, at least for now: Interested in evidence that HIV treatment has become staggeringly effective?\u00a0 Fully 87% of patients receiving treatment in the large British Columbia cohort have an HIV RNA &lt; 50; not only that, the incidence of HIV drug resistance has declined more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,10],"tags":[167,423,498,500,655,700,718,801,906],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiv","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","category-research","tag-cdc","tag-hiv","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-influenza","tag-new-yorker","tag-patient-care","tag-phishing-scam","tag-resistance","tag-telavancin"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}